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FILE - In this Saturday, April 21, 2012 file photo, followers of Egyptian Muslim cleric and former candidate for the Egyptian presidency Hazem Abu Ismail continue the protests in to the next day at Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. Internal divisions are threatening to unravel Egypt’s second biggest political party, the political arm of the ultraconservative Salafis, the country’s most hardline Islamist movement. Now its leaders are split over whether Muslim clerics or more pragmatic politicians should be steering the movement. (AP Photo/Fredrik Persson, File)